Abilene police: Intoxicated man seeing snakes taken into custody

Friday

An intoxicated man was arrested, Abilene police said, after explaining a hallucination.

Police said they were called at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday to the 5500 block of Congress Avenue on a report of a shirtless man in the streets screaming.

Finding the man, police said, he "talked constantly in a rambling fashion, indicated that he saw snakes under my feet (which there weren't), and could not hold still or answer direct questions or follow instructions."

Police said his license indicated he did not live in the neighborhood.

Also, the man used a credit card to scratch paint off a parked vehicle in police presence, police said.

When he was taken into custody, police said, he became resistant, threw strikes and stiffened his body.

He was taken to Taylor County Jail, police said. He was charged with assault and public intoxication.

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